Mission impossible

In the early 1860s Sicily was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy. Soon after, visitors to the island discovered what they believed was a criminal fraternity at work in Palermo and its environs. Th

John Foot The Red Brigades The terrorists who brought Italy to its knees 464pp. Bloomsbury. £25. The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) captured global attention in 1978, when they kidnapped Aldo Moro, form

Palermo’s Serie B clash with Spezia is two days away, and fresh suits embossed with the club’s logo are being unloaded from a van outside the Stadio Renzo Barbera. FourFourTwo are going for a typicall

In December 1838, a few days after Berlioz had conducted a concert of his own works that included Harold in Italy, a four-movement ‘symphony with principal viola’, the composer found that his bank bal

On the morning of 9 January 1905 (22 January on the New Style calendar Soviet Russia later adopted), a crowd of striking workers marched peacefully through Saint Petersburg towards the Winter Palace,

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path